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=== Murder ===
=== Murder ===
While Morbius is giving this tour, his crew have erected an electronic force-field fence to protect their camp. The cook asks permission to leave the camp, and Farnam, though he doesn't believe a word of the cook's unlikely story, lets him leave, on condition that he return before Adams does. And so the cook is away from camp, and in the company of Robby the Robot, who has brought, as promised, 480 pints of synthesized bourbon which the cook proceeds to drink without a hangover—when an invisible creature passes through the fence (causing an apparent electrical short as the only sign), leaves huge footprints in the dirt, bends the steps on the ladder as it enters the ship, and then brutally murders Chief Quinn. The guards are aware only of the shorting-out of the fence when they hear Quinn's anguished death scream.
While Morbius is giving this tour, Adams' crew have erected an electronic force-field fence to protect their camp. The cook asks permission to leave the camp, and Farnam, though he doesn't believe a word of the cook's unlikely story, lets him leave, on condition that he return before Adams does. And so the cook is away from camp, and in the company of Robby the Robot, who has brought, as promised, 480 pints of synthesized bourbon which the cook proceeds to drink without a hangover—when an invisible creature passes through the fence (causing an apparent electrical short as the only sign), leaves huge footprints in the dirt, bends the steps on the ladder as it enters the ship, and then brutally murders Chief Quinn. The guards are aware only of the shorting-out of the fence when they hear Quinn's anguished death scream.
Morbius is vehemently informing Adams that he will be the sole judge of what portions of Krel science he will deem humanity fit to receive, when Adams receives a call from Farnam, describing the murder of Quinn. Adams and Ostrow return to their camp immediately, while Morbius ruefully tells his daughter that "the Bellerophon pattern" is repeating itself.
Morbius is vehemently informing Adams that he will be the sole judge of what portions of Krel science he will deem humanity fit to receive, when Adams receives a call from Farnam, describing the murder of Quinn. Adams and Ostrow return to their camp immediately, while Morbius ruefully tells his daughter that "the Bellerophon pattern" is repeating itself.